The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and an Aleppo activist reached via Skype also reported the takeover of the base in al-Taaneh, east of Aleppo. The activist, Mohammed Abu Omar, said four rebels were killed in the overnight battle.

Turkey deploys fighter jets to Syria border after frontier village allegedly bombed – reportsAccording to the Reuters witnesses, Turkey has scrambled two fighter jets to Syrian border after a Syrian helicopter bombarded the Syrian border town of Azmarin.

­Tensions have been running high between the countries after a brief exchange of cross-border shelling last week, and after Turkey grounded a Syrian commercial jet en route from Moscow to Damascus on Wednesday over accusations there was illegal cargo onboard.

In another step towards enforcing a buffer strip inside Syria, Turkish fighters Friday attacked a Syrian helicopter bombing rebel positions in the village of Azmarin near the Turkish border. This attack brought the Turkish Air Force closer to a clash with the Syrian air force over the control of Syrian air space.

Artillery fire between Syria and Turkey has further raised the stakes, and NATO has pledged to defend its Turkish ally. NPR's Peter Kenyon, Joshua Landis of the University of Oklahoma, and Soner Cagaptay of The Washington Institute discuss the broader implications.

Turkey's Prime Minister has given more details about the cargo on board a Syrian passenger plane that was intercepted by Turkish Air Force jets and forced to land in Ankara on Wednesday. Recep Tayyip Erdogan said the plane was carrying "defense equipment" for the Syrian military. Officials in both Syria and Russia have denied that claim.

US Troops Are In Jordan To Help It Defend Against A Syrian Chemical AttackRUSSEIFEH, Jordan (AP) — From the edge of a steep mountain overlooking a desert compound built into an old rock quarry, machine gunfire echoes just outside hangars where U.S. special operations forces are training Jordanian commandos.

The Americans, who arrived in the kingdom a few weeks ago at the request of the Jordanians, are helping them develop techniques to protect civilians in case of a chemical attack from neighboring Syria, according to Jordanian officials.

An Unflinching Account Of How The Syrian Town Maaret Al-Numan Was Won By The Rebels

Blown-up buildings, deserted streets and corpses of regime soldiers bear testimony to a fierce 48-hour battle before the town of Maaret al-Numan fell to Syrian rebels.

The capture of Maaret al-Numan on Wednesday was a major breakthrough for the rebels fighting President Bashar al-Assad's forces, especially after they cut off the highway linking Damascus with the northern city of Aleppo.

Russia's state arms trader said on Friday that it had no connection to the "illegal" military items removed from a Moscow-Damascus passenger airliner forced to land in Turkey.

Turkish F-16 fighter jets forced down the Syrian Air Airbus A320 some three hours after it had taken off from Moscow's Vnukovo international airport late on Wednesday. Turkey eventually permitted the A320 to resume its flight after a five-hour inspection of the aircraft that resulted in the seizure of a number of items.

In another step towards enforcing a buffer strip inside Syria, Turkish fighters Friday attacked a Syrian helicopter bombing rebel positions in the village of Azmarin near the Turkish border. This attack brought the Turkish Air Force closer to a clash with the Syrian air force over the control of Syrian air space.

Persistent violence and house demolitions in Damascus have reshaped the city and turned hard-hit protest neighbourhoods into ghost towns as residents flee for the safety of the capital's safer districts.What began with a trickle of families leaving their homes in search of temporary refuge in schools and parks, has now turned into a flood that is likely to change the city on a much more permanent basis, residents and analysts say.

With fighting in the capital showing no sign of abating, those with the financial means are trying to get out of danger areas and set-up new lives in safer zones.

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A senior Iranian lawmaker says the US sees military intervention as the only solution to the Syrian crisis, urging Turkey to not become involved in the American war game.

“With such plots, the Americans, seek to create conflict among regional states in order not to pay the cost of military intervention in another country and to improve their public image,” Spokesman of Iran Majlis (parliament) National Security and Foreign Policy Committee Hossein Naqavi-Hosseini said in an interview with ISNA on Friday.

Referring to recent comments of Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan that the Turkish nation should be prepared for a possible war with Syria, Naqavi advised Ankara against “entering the American game.”

Russia has retained its historical role as the key weapons supplier to Bashar al-Assad's regime over the past 18 months. It is believed to have sent at least three shipments of heavy ammunition to the jointly run port of Tartous in northern Syria. Other Russian supplies are thought to have been flown in.